Frenchman
[french-muh n]
- a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- a French ship.
Origin of Frenchman
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Contemporary Examples
He is thought to have self-radicalized online, calling himself Abou Abdallah al-Faransi (“The Frenchman”) on social networks.
On May 24, the young Frenchman allegedly walked into a Jewish museum in Brussels and killed four people.
A Frenchman who was detained told his interrogators he had been recruited by ISIS.
In fact, they were based on the reasoning of that great seventeenth-century Frenchman.
The first way is that of another Frenchman whom you made an honorary citizen on June 28, 1992.
Bernard-Henri Levy Celebrates the Fraternity of Sarajevo CitizenshipBernard-Henri Lévy
November 30, 2013
Historical Examples
They found her afterwards by her own hearthstone, thrust through by a Frenchman's bill.
The White CompanyArthur Conan Doyle
Napoleon turned upon his tormentor; "a better man than you, Frenchman!"
The Boy Life of NapoleonEugenie Foa
I could see that he was not an Italian, neither was he a German nor a Frenchman.
The UnderdogF. Hopkinson Smith
With him, as with the average Frenchman, solvency was an eleventh commandment.
In the Heart of VosgesMatilda Betham-Edwards
You are no Frenchman, to spit flesh with a wire; but you can shoot, can't you?
In the ValleyHarold Frederic
Frenchman
- a native, citizen, or inhabitant of France
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